The mirror on the wall

The village women oil and comb their hair neatly. And spend a few seconds to place the kumkum neatly on their forehead. Looking into the small mirror hung on their mud walls.

Some urban women spend 2000/- on beauty parlour trips.

Both look just the same as they did, day after day. And both look 40, when they turn 40. And 50 when they turn 50. Which is as it should be.

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Fowzia Fiona Didi, u r such an inspiration whn everyday I'm fighting with my urban depression ...

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Aparna Krishnan The village women do not know the word depression !

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Fowzia Fiona What do u think, its a urban creation ? or it is about the space ? but trust me we all are fighting. me, my colleagues , friends everyone and we don't know the way how to get rid of

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Aparna Krishnan what exactly does it mean ? i understand grief, anger, sadness, numbing pain. But what is depression.

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Aparna Krishnan i have dealt with all that. I did not know the word depression, and all I know is that one held on and those times passed, The village women face what none should. But they also do not know that word, and they move on in faith and in a community they give to and take from.

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Fowzia Fiona hm.. but here none of us is satisfied with our life we just running after nothing. Every time we start a race we think that would be make us happy and it never happened . And then we start another race without knowing we really want it or not. After spending 3-4 years in a job we feel like that job is killing us, and the interesting thing is that we don't have courage to leave that one. It might be a numbing pain with sadness .

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Aparna Krishnan So you know the answer

. Satisfaction. And that no material desire can satisfy. Because 1. it causes satiety and 2. it passes away. Ones learns the need for a deeper anchor.

SreeHarsha Thanneru Wonderfully captured Aparna garu. Those black hair lines with oil and the image in mirror, stunning !!

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Aparna Krishnan accidental shot !! like everything in my life !!

Geetha Dinesh As a child I mocked my mom whenever she asked me to oil the hair. Just in my 30's , hair greyed up and stopped growing , so then when I took opinion from 'experts' , they asked me to oil (massage) it.